Thanks to Kathy Wickward, Lisa Kaufman, Christine Wood, and all the other wonderful ladies over at Northwest CM Educators and CM West who invited me to speak on Charlotte Mason Nature Study in Seattle earlier this year and recorded the session so we can share it with all of you! The audio is sketchy for […]
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We just returned from the Northwest Charlotte Mason Educators Conference last night and I wanted to share some pictures here. I know not everyone is able to attend a conference and that was the case for me for years. This was the first year I have been able to attend any conference for many years
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In a previous post, inspired by the sheer spot-on-ness of what was written in W.S. Furneaux’s A Nature Study Guide which I had just happily acquired, I made an outline of it hoping you could employ its truths. It’s a rare old book mentioned by Charlotte Mason in her programmes to be used in Special
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This is my messy morning schedule I scribbled out while I was at the beach Thursday. Cindy Rollins’ talk at the AO At Home Conference in Indiana this summer about her precious moments with the kids in the mornings re-inspired me to look at my scheduling again. We’re starting school Wednesday this week and spreading
After re-watching the Eve Anderson DVD on Picture Study I decided to make individual cardstock prints for each of my kids this year. It cost me less than $15 for all of these beautiful 8.5 x 5.5 prints. I used to pass one full size print around and then put it up for a month. I
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Our youngest son is now four and as I revisit Charlotte Mason’s ideas on habit training, or maybe some collectively gathered ideas on training and educating, I’ve come to realize the importance of the flip side of habit training – the side that maybe we don’t consider often enough. I think for the most part,
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Did you know? AmblesideOnline is having a conference next month, July 24-25 in Remington, IN! Someone once said wisdom comes from two places – our mistakes, and the mistakes of others. Wouldn’t it be nice to save years of making our own mistakes by learning from others who have walked further down this path who
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Years ago during a planning meeting for our old nature group, one mom talked about her reading about growing pumpkins for a county fair in Farmer Boy and one thing led to another and the result was a Handicraft Fair where our kids could bring the things they make during the year and display and
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I read this article today and it struck a chord that has been ringing at me for some time now. It’s not anything unique to the CM community, it happens wherever humans are, because we are just that. But the nature of CM homeschooling really seems to scaffold this tower of glory and excellence in
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Note: This post was originally published on August 26, 2011 and is being re-posted – because I think we can all afford to hear it again and again. And because I haven’t blogged in a very, very long time… I resolved in my future conduct to redeem the past; and I can say with honesty
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